Now it's Minneapolis that's rated as the best metropolitan...

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December 2, 1989|By L.M. Boyd

Now it's Minneapolis that's rated as the best metropolitan area in the United States to raise children. And Miami, the worst. A national magazine reports these conclusions from what it calls a study. Maybe so. However, it's also said you don't raise children in a metropolitan area but in a neighborhood. And you have neighborhood choices wherever.

Two people shopping for a house to buy, typically, look at eight before closing. So reports a real estate statistician.

Tell the traveling lady in your household she had better get her hair cut and blow-dried before she flies to Tokyo. There it now costs $46.40.

A Connecticut law of yesteryear prohibited women there from showing up in public with bare arms.

You know President Calvin Coolidge didn't say much. So people thought him quite a formal fellow. He was, in fact, a practical joker. At his White House desk, he would ring for his staff then hide in the closet. There, too, he would sit from time to time with his bare feet in a wastebasket. Over breakfast, it's recorded, he at least once, even as he ate, had his valet rub his scalp with petroleum jelly.

Not only was George Washington Carver an accomplished painter, but in his later years he created his own paint and brushes.